Prince Albert’s Light Infantry

The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

1685: Earl of Huntingdon’s
Regiment of Foot
1688: Ferdinand Hasting’s
1695: John Jacob’s
1702: Earl of Barrymore’s

Edward Fox’s
Regiment of Marines
1704:
Jacob Bor’s
1706: Pearce’s
Regiment of Dragoons


1707: Earl of Barrymore’s
Regiment of Foot


1714:

Jacob Bor’s
Regiment of Foot
1715: Stanhope Cotton’s

1723:
Charles Dubourgay’s
1725: Mark Kerr’s

1732: John Middleton’s
Thomas Paget’s
1738:
Simon Descury’s
1739: Harry Pulteney’s

1740:
John Huske’s
1741:



John Price’s
Regiment of Foot
1743:
Henry Skelton’s
Thomas Murray’s
1745:
William Douglas’s

1747: ranked as 13th Foot
ranked as 32nd Foot
ranked as 57th Foot
1747:
Francis Leighton’s

1751: 13th Regiment of Foot
32nd Regiment of Foot
46th Regiment of Foot
1756:
2nd Bn raised

1758:
2nd Bn → 71st Foot


13th-Foot

32nd-Foot

46th-Foot
1782: 13th (1st Somersetshire)
Regiment of Foot

32nd (Cornwall)
Regiment of Foot

46th (South Devonshire)
Regiment of Foot

1800:

2nd Bn raised
1802:

2nd Bn disbanded
1804:
2nd Bn raised

1814:
2nd Bn disbanded

1822: 13th (1st Somersetshire)
Regiment of Foot
(Light Infantry)







1842: 13th (1st Somersetshire)
(Prince Albert’s Light Infantry)
Regiment of Foot







1858: 2nd Bn raised


32nd (Cornwall)
Regiment of Foot
(Light Infantry)




13th Foot
32th Foot
46th Foot
layout
32th Foot
layout
The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
layout layout
1881: 1st Bn,    2nd Bn, 1st Bn, 2nd Bn,
The Somersetshire Regiment
(Prince Albert’s Light Infantry)
Prince Albert’s Light Infantry
(Somersetshire Regiment)
The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
Somersetshire
Duke-of-Cornwalls-Light-Infantry
1881: Prince Albert’s
(Somersetshire Light Infantry)



1912: Prince Albert’s
(Somerset Light Infantry)



SLI
DCLI
1920: The Somerset Light Infantry
(Prince Albert’s)



1948: 2nd Bn disbanded
2nd Bn disbanded
1948:
part of
The Light Infantry Brigade
part of
The Light Infantry Brigade
layout layout
1959: 1st Battalion,
The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry
Light-Infantry
1968: 1st Battalion,
The Light Infantry
part of
The Light Division
Light-Infantry
1993: disbanded